Flight number record
UA 2407
United Airlines · Raleigh to Houston
- Route
- RDU → IAH
- Departs
- 16:44
- Flights
- 304
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s UA 2407, check with United Airlines.
UA 2407 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, UA 2407's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 302 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 304 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When UA 2407 flies
UA 2407 flies RDU to IAH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:44, used on 49 of 304 flights, with 16:53 (35 flights) and 16:45 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 16:4449 flights16.1%
- Departs 16:5335 flights11.5%
- Departs 16:4532 flights10.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 16:44 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and UA 2407 runs 13 points better at 85.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
UA 2407 next to RDU to IAH
Every carrier on RDU to IAH combined arrived on time 85.9% of the time across 943 flights, so UA 2407 is about level with it. United flew 696 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.1% on time. Across its whole network United Airlines managed 78.8%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA 2407thin sample | 304 | 85.1% | 73 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| All United Airlines on RDU–IAH | 696 | 89.1% | 80 min | 0.86% | A+ |
| All carriers on RDU–IAH | 943 | 85.9% | 86 min | 1.17% | A |
| United Airlines, whole network | 830,825 | 78.8% | 73 min | 1.02% | B |
Across the year
UA 2407 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter UA 2407 held fairly steady: 81.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 80.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202527 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights81.3%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights89.2%
- Apr–Jun 202655 flights87.3%
- Jul–Sep 202647 flights80.4%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, UA 2407 did best on Wednesday at 91.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 73.9%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late UA 2407 runs when it is late
UA 2407 often beats the schedule: 110 of 302 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early110 flights36.4%
- Within 15 min147 flights48.7%
- 15–29 min late12 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 302 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 44 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for UA 2407
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 July 2026, 6 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2026 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 May 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 April 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why UA 2407 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 56% of the 3,265 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,817 minutes out of 3,265, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,265 delay minutes reported on UA 2407.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,042 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including IAH to ABQ (156), IAH to SAN (46) and IND to DEN (9), but none flew often enough under UA 2407 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to RDU to IAH only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking UA 2407
For a booking, UA 2407 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.1% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- RDU to IAH, every carrier and departure
- IAH to RDU, the return direction
- United Airlines 1383 on the same route92.2%
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- United Airlines on-time record
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A flight number here means United Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.